2004-2007 Full professor of General Botany, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2001-2004 Head of a junior research group at Max-Planck-Institute of Chemical
Ecology, Jena, Germany
1999-2001 Postdoctoral stay at CEFE-CNRS in Montpellier, France
1997 Ph.D. in Biology, U. of Würzburg, Germany